Wyzecam App For Mac
The Wyze app is the home for all your Wyze devices. Use your Wyze Cam or Wyze Cam Pan to live stream 1080p full HD video day or night, listen and talk. Free up disk space mac.
When Steve and I were at CES, we had the opportunity to hang out with fellow NosillaCastaway Joe LaGreca. While we were talking about the disappointment of the security model for D-Link and their $150 Omna webcam, he mentioned that he uses a little camera called the WyzeCam. We were intrigued because Joe said the WyzeCam is only $20 plus $5 shipping. But how good could this camera be? Joe showed us a live erityideo feed of his kids’ playroom – and it was pretty darn good.
For $20, it was amazing. Joe cares as much about security as we do (if not more) but since a $150 HomeKit-compatible webcam from a big-name networking company doesn’t guarantee us great security, I have changed my expectations. The WyzeCam is available from their website at for $20 plus $5 shipping, or for. If you get a message saying it’s out of stock, don’t worry about it, buy it anyway. Joe told me to ignore that warning and he was right. The WyzeCam site said it was 4 weeks shipping, and it shipped 2 days after I ordered it.
I expected the WyzeCam to be cheap feeling, poorly designed and to have raw cardboard packaging. Surprisingly the WyzeCam came in very professional and minimalistic packaging and the camera itself feels very solid and well designed. The WyzeCam is a small white cube, maybe 2.5 inches on a side, with a very clever articulated base. When you pull up on the camera from the base, you can rotate the view up and down and the base can rotate with respect to the cube for the camera. For those who speak my language, it rotates in both azimuth and elevation. The camera can sit on a shelf, or be mounted to a wall with a magnet and an adhesive metal plate.
It does require power to operate and comes with a small USB US power plug. I love IoT devices, but I truly detest setting them up. It’s always a nightmare to get them connected to the right network and getting the app to talk to the device. The WyzeCam setup was probably the easiest of any devices we’ve ever used. One trick in the WyzeCam was that you point the camera at your phone’s screen for it to read a QR code to identify itself.
It also happily jumped on our IoT network without any faffing about. WyzeCam even has a short video to show you how to do the setup. Quality and Capabilities Enough preamble, let’s talk about what this camera can do. The WyzeCam app is beautifully developed with intuitive menus that make discovery easy. Once your camera is set up and named, you’ll see it in a static view under Devices with a share button in the upper right.
With this button, I was able to add Steve by his email address, and while he can view the camera, he cannot change the settings as I can. If you tap on the camera view, it opens into the Live Stream view with a little animation to show you it’s connecting. Once connected, you’ll see a full-screen button in the upper right which fills the iPhone screen into landscape view. In the bottom right of the video, you’ll also see a date and time stamp which could come in handy in the case of a burglary. Not perfect evidence since obviously times can be tampered with but can’t hurt. The WyzeCam has a 110째 field of view which is actually plenty.